Genus of flightless birds including three species of cassowary. Native to the New Guinea forests, the Moluccas, and Northeastern Australia
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Cassowaries
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A cassowary walking next to a display of its feathers and a skeletal foot. Etching by S. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
Maréchal, Nicolas, -1803.Date: [1808]Reference: 40927i
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To the admirers of the wonderful productions of nature : just arrived here, to be seen in a commodious room, from eleven in the morning, till 9 at night, at Mr. Robson's, Market Place, Durham : the famous Miss Baggs from Newfoundland, now twenty years of age, born without arms, and will work with her toes, in as complete a manner as with arms, and hands ...
Date: [between 1750 and 1799?]